Quotes by Charles Bukowski

About Charles Bukowski:

Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
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yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

Charles Bukowski

sometimes it's hard to know what to do.

Charles Bukowski

it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.

Charles Bukowski

regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.

Charles Bukowski

I found the best thing I could do was just to type away at my own work and let the dying die as they always have.

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How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

Charles Bukowski

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

Charles Bukowski

What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

Charles Bukowski

What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes." "What is your advice to older writers?" "If you're still alive, you don't need any advice." "What is the impulse that makes you create a poem?" "What makes you take ...

Charles Bukowski

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

Charles Bukowski

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Charles Bukowski

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Charles Bukowski

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Charles Bukowski

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Charles Bukowski

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

Charles Bukowski

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Charles Bukowski

Never get out of bed before noon.

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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

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Author Bio

  • NameCharles Bukowski
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornAugust 16, 1920
  • DiedMarch 9, 1994
  • CountryGermany; United States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Writer; Screenwriter; Poet; Novelist